Ester Village Library

Open Hours
2026-04-15 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-25 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-29 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-06 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-09 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Anchorage) and 4 more dates

Spring Fundraiser: Once Upon a Spring
2026-04-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Golden Eagle Saloon, 3530 Main Steet, Fairbanks, 99709, United States
So far, we’ve got round trip tickets for the following tours: Northern Alaska Tour Company’s Fly and Drive to the Arctic Circle, Stan Stephens Columbia Glacier cruise, and Alaska Railroad tickets from Anchorage to Seward (all tours are for 2 people), the Pump House Restaurant, and the Fairbanks Children’s Museum.
These are just a few of the items up for the silent auction. We have lots more – tools, kitchen implements, art and prints and swag from local breweries and restaurants.
Come on out, dressed as your favorite literary character (or not – costumes not required)! We’ll have a photo booth and a DJ from 7-10 Saturday, April 18, 2026!

Writing Circle/Open hours
2026-04-19 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-26 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-03 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Kid's art and crafts
2026-04-20 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-27 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-04 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-11 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-18 15:00 - 18:00

Knit Night/Open Hours
2026-04-21 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-28 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-05 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-12 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-19 16:00 - 19:00

Adult Book Club
2026-05-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
“The World According to Color” by James Fox
From Amazon:
We have an extraordinary connection to color―we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors―black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green―and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history.
Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations.
Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art―from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein―in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art―moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond.
By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
